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Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
2) Bliss
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Türkçe
Description
Based on the acclaimed novel by Zülfü Livaneli and set amidst Turkey’s natural wonders, Bliss is a riveting tale about love, honor, freedom and redemption. When a 17-year-old girl, Meryem, is found unconscious and disheveled by the side of a lake, her family believes the worst – that her chastity has been lost. To uphold the family honor they turn to an ancient moral code that condemns Meryem to death. A distant cousin, Cemal, is ordered to...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Emma, John, and Mari Collingwood head out on vacation to their summer lake house. Shortly after arriving, Mari borrows the family car and drives into town to spend time with her friend Paige. While Paige is working the cash register at a local store, she and Mari meet Justin, a teenager passing through the town. Justin invites them both back to his hotel room to smoke some weed. After kidnapping and ruthlessly assaulting the two girls, Justin's father...
4) Precious
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
5) Ms. 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Manhattan, a mute seamstress Thana, is a timid woman who works in the fashion industry and spends most of her time at home. One night, she is raped in an alley near her, and before she arrives at her house, she is raped a second time by another criminal. But this time, she reacts and kills her assaulter. Now a disturbed Thana loses her sanity and uses the rapist's pistol to begin killing men on the streets of New York.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
10) The accused
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together cinema verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt...
12) Open window
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Now more than 30 years later, re-experience one of the most hated, debated and controversial movies of all time: Jennifer Hills, an attractive city woman, rents a backwoods cabin to begin writing her first novel. She is soon attacked by a group of local lowlifes, including one who is mentally disabled, and dragged screaming into a nightmare of rape, sodomy and violence. Left for dead, she devises a horrific plan for revenge.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now, more than thirty years later, re-experience one of the most hated, debated, and controversial movies of all time. Jennifer Hills, an attractive city woman who rents a backwoods cabin to begin writing her first novel. She is soon attacked by a group of local lowlifes, including one who is mentally disabled, and dragged screaming into a nightmare of rape, sodomy, and violence. Left for dead, she devises a horrific plan for revenge.
16) Hannie Caulder
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A woman swears revenge on the man who raped her and killed her husband. At first, she has more heart than know-how, but once a bounty hunter arrives in town, he teaches her how to use a gun. She straps on her .45 and sets out to put a few notches in its handle.
17) Bordertown
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a young girl is raped and left for dead in Mexico, she enlists the help of an ambitious reporter and a local newspaper owner for help. Soon their own lives are in danger as they try to uncover the terrors on the border. Inspired by true events.
18) Extremities
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A woman is terrified to learn that her rapist knows where she lives.
19) Julia
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A neo-noir revenge thriller centering on Julia Shames, who after suffering a brutal trauma, falls prey to an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.
20) Death wish II
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Paul Kersey is trying to nurse his daughter back to health when she is raped and driven to suicide by a gang. Kersey relentlessly hunts down the gang, and in turn is hunted by a New York City detective.
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